Hi all, I've taken every precaution to make Dust:AET as solid an experience as possible, but I thought it'd be best to have one central thread for any potential issues.

If you run into any technical problems please post them here, along with a few basic specs if possible (CPU/GPU/OS). I will do my absolute best to ensure you have a smooth experience. You can also contact me at noogy@noogy.com for specific issues. I'm also active on Twitter as NoogyTweet. Please note that I'm very backed up with email, so it's taking me time to respond to every issue. Thanks!

Current Top Issues:

One of the most common issues that keeps popping up is related to audio/video files that would normally be handled by Windows Media Player. Please note that WMP is required to run Dust:AET, and if you seem to be experiencing crashes with the World Map or cutscenes, this is likely the cause. Ensure that WMP is installed and is in control of your .wma/.wmv files. It is possible that unsupported third-party codecs could also be causing issues.

Finally, there was a recent update to Windows 7 which broke video playback in a number of games, and sadly Dust:AET was affected. Thankfully there seems to be an easy fix. If you notice that cutscenes (such as the splash screen, cinematics, etc) seem to have their upper half cut off, then you can simply uninstall the Win7 update named KB2803821. Microsoft seems to know that this is an issue and will hopefully fix it in the future, but at least you can do something about it now.

My game crashes the second it loads, I suppect it's a result of the game trying and failing to load at my desktop resolution. So can you tell me where your config file is or the launch parameters to force a different resolution please, I can't find the config file, it might be it's crashing before it's created.

Seconded with Skid and Killsjoyz. Game is crashing before it even fully loads. Suspected due to resolution. I tried forcing it into 640x480 and it launched but then crashed when I opened up the options menu.

I keep getting a very high CPU usage for some reason on my i7 3770k. Not sure what's causing it as I've turned off pretty much every setting and tried to force vsync via the nvidia controle panel. The CPU is heating up nicely... GPU usage seems to be really low also. (GTX 660Ti) This is all on Windows 7.